RatkoVarda

Clark was always the long term-high risk play, but I see Langford had a fantastic June.

I think Seattle and Philadelphia and Atlanta and maybe very few other teams are willing to move big time prospects. But most teams just won't do it.

I think they are hoping that the humiliation ends sooner rather than later; Harris could help move them from historically incompetent to really bad.

having just the middle game of a 3 game LAA set go back to Detroit makes little sense; probably a Manfred idea

and if he has a decent year, you can trade him at deadline for another 2nd round pick

who are these young guys they are developing? where are they? I guess you can still dream on some of the Toledo guys to be ML contributors: Jung, Tork, Dingler, Meadows, even Leonard. Maybe that gets you 2 average starters? a platoon bat? a bench guy? then it gets really bad. Erie has only Lee as a real prospect, with Cruz and Workman probably seeing time with some team as McKinstry-level utility guys. WMI: not much at all here. Campos? Gold? once the AAA guy get a chance and either succeed or fail, there is a massive void in the next 2 seasons behind them.

I hope they use 40th anniversary events as a springboard for Lou's HOF case.

hard to believe NYY would trade Dominguez if they were not getting Skubal if you want Peraza, just wait a few weeks and claim him on waivers

AJ seems to spend lots of time and energy genuinely focused on rearranging these deck chairs (like all his platooning) but he knows this sh** sandwich does not taste very good at all.

getting dominated by a 27-year old rookie making his first career start. this team blows.

apparently there's a NBA draft going on right now

i assume they have 7 votes for democracy; once they have just 5 votes, Roberts could release decision; he wants it unanimous; Alito and Thomas might be getting all they can from this: a delay that is pissing off their critics

i do think that Roberts is trying to get Alito and Thomas on board so it is 9-0.

Roberts knows debate is tonight so he was not releasing it today

in addition to allowing bribery so long as you get paid after, 6-3 court just got rid of SEC in-house actions, bouncing them to over burdened fed courts. considering that prosecutors don't go after white collar crime generally, this means more and more securities fraudsters will go unpunished. truly awful decision. Corruption, corruption, corruption

Willi Castro is on pace for 5+ WAR for the ***** Twins; would like to hear Harris & Co explain what they missed when he walked out the door for nothing.

a couple of "A" grades; I get the fit concerns with yet another poor shooter; unfortunately, I think that they are still in talent acquisition phase, so if he was the best guy on their board, I'm glad they took him, regardless of fit; he may turn out to be one of the best players in this draft; or not.

the return on that is 5 years out (2030!) and with a low probability of actually hitting on a ML player. yes, something is better than nothing, but that would not be a good result IMO

if he is in protocol, nothing official; now been 5 days

runs on previous 6-game road trip: 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 13 runs on 6-game homestand: 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 11 so getting better?

correct. Holliday, Basallo, Mayo and Kjerstad for Skubal would never be offered but that's a trade Harris should accept.

not sure how often a pitcher admits that run support affects him

they why did he spend so much time at 3B?????????????????????

building around a strong rotation blew up in the Astros faces this year with everyone on the IL, but with a little bit of health luck, this would be nice rotation next year: Skubal-Jobe-Flaherty-Olson-Mize